Photographic camera



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. BAUER.

PHOTOGRAPHIO CAMERA.

Patented June 1,1897.

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M. BAUER.

PHOTOGRAPHIO CAMERA.

No. 583,886. Patented June 1,1897.

WITNESSES: mvamoh:

- Max Bauer ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX BAUER, OF JERSEY CITY, NElV JERSEY.

PHOTQGRAPHIC CAMERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatent No. 583,836, dated June 1,1897.

Application filed December 31,1896. Serial No. 617,601. (No model.)

To CI/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX BAUER, a citizen of Germany, residing at JerseyCity, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented newand useful Improvements in Photographic Cameras, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of this invention is to increase the capacity of photographiccameras for taking diversified views or to. increase the adjustabilityof the camera; and the invention resides in the novel features ofconstruction set forth in the following specification and claim andillustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan Viewof the camera. Fig. 2 1s a section along line cc :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is adetail plan view of the camera back-sectioned along line y 3 Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is a view like Fig. 3 with parts in a different position than inFig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section along line 2 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a viewlike Fig. 5 with parts in a different position than in Fig. 5.

The base 1 has the front frame or camera front 2 and the back frame orcamera-back 3, with the bellows 4, the back and front being adjustabletoward and from one another. The back is carried by the support 5, theside pieces 6 rising from the support and having the pivots '7,supporting the back, so that the latter can be angularly adjusted abouta horizontal axis. The tongue 8, depending from back 3, plays in a slotin support 5 and can be clamped by screw 9 when the back has beensuitably adjusted about the horizontal axis. The movability of thesupport 5 along the guide or way 1Q. in base 1 enables the back 3 to beset toward and from the front 2. These parts being well known need nodetail description.

The support 5 has a screw 11 with head or plate 12 running in the way10, and when the back 3 has been adjusted toward or from thefront thehandle 13, when properly swung,

will cause screw 11 to clamp its head 12 against the side plates of theway 10 to prevent movement of the support 5 along way 10.

In addition to the adjustment about the horizontal axis 7 the back 3 canbe angularly adjusted about the vertical axis formed by the pivot orscrew 11. The back 3 orits support 5 has a pin or lock 14, which whenengaging into way 10, Figs. 2, 3, and 5, will prevent the back turningabout the vertical axis, or, in other words, will hold the horizontaledges of the back parallel to the horizontal edges of the front. hen,however, the lock 14 is moved out of way 10, Figs. 4 and 6, the back canbe angularly adjusted about the vertical axis to bring the horizontaledges of the back out of parallelism with the horizontal edges of thefront.

The lock 14 is normally pressed by spring 15 to locking position and canbe moved to unlocking position by slide 16, having near one end a handleor exposed button 17, the other endportion of the slide 16 beinginclined, so that when the slide is pushed toward the lock 14 or itsspring 15 said slide will lift or move the lock to releasing position.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a photographic camera having a base provided with away, of an angularly adjustable back movable along the way and providedwith a vertical springpressed locking-pin for engaging a part of theway, and a slide having an incline at one end constructed to pass underand raise the locking-pin from the way when said slide is moved towardsaid pin, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MAX BAUER. lVitnesses:

7M. 0. IIAUFF, CHAs. E. POENSGEN.

